Sam is concerned with Focus Software potentially targeting Forward Software upon completion of their lawsuit against Discount Software. Sam is faced with a dilemma of whether or not to hire the law firm to assess the outcome of Focus Software vs. Discount Software. If Given the value of the information the law firm provides, Sam needs to assess the fairness of the firm’s offer of $0.7 million. With Focus Software's lawsuit against their competitor Discount Software, Focus looks to set precedence in copyright infringement to come after Forward and their new product, Cinco. Sam, CEO of Forward Software, will need to select the course of action that best reduces their cost in potential copyright infringement damages.…
The files that are being downloaded are digital information that have been protected by copyright laws and are on the Internet to download for free. Even though file sharing copyrighted files is illegal, millions of people are still downloading these files for free on the Internet everyday. They may not know it is illegal or they do know it is illegal and are still willingly downloading files off of one of the thousands of file sharing websites, software’s, or technologies. No matter how hard the RIAA works to stop copyright infringement on the Internet, it seems like it will be an impossible task. Every time they shutdown a major file sharing software, a couple more software’s will come up and take…
The SWOT analysis is important for any company. It is necessary to run a SWOT analysis throughout the life of a company. The Main SWOT analysis will stay the same. There will be SWOT changes throughout the lifetime of the company.…
Piracy has been a possible subsequence of ocean commerce since ocean commerce was made. However, when a number of Tripolitan pirates started holding american merchant ships as hostages for ransom, the piracy becomes the United States’ problems despite it being in far-off shores. By looking into the history of Tripoli we will be able to learn more about the nation’s early challenges. The phrase ‘To the Shores of Tripoli’ from the Marine’s hymn references the first Barbary war.…
COST OF GOODS SOLD Cost of goods sold is a deduction on a taxpayer’s taxable income. For tax purposes, Piratephernalia Corporation must capitalize a portion of their overhead expenses into the annual inventory calculation. Additionally, cost of goods sold includes only the inventory sold throughout the fiscal year. Unsold purchased inventory will not be deducted from the taxable income. INTEREST INCOME…
The illegal downloading or called torrenting, which means sharing the movie & TV series through peer-to-peer on the internet, has been an open secret for a long time. Many people use it as a tool to entertain themselves, but there are also many people against it. Though all these argumentative thoughts from different people, the article “Is downloading really stealing? The ethics of digital piracy” by the author Christian Barry gives his answer very persuasively Firstly, the use of logo seems the most important rhetorical concept.…
Tim O’ Reiley was quoted by forbes.com explaining, “History shows us, again and again, that frontiers are lawless places, but that as they get richer and more settled, they join in the rule of law. American publishing, now the largest publishing industry in the world, began with piracy.” What this means is that however popular pirating may get, cheap, legal alternatives will not be far behind, making content accessible for the everyday geek, gamer, music lover, or moviegoer. Thus, the need to pirate is quelled (sometimes). This point of dualistic progression between businesses and pirating methods leads straight into the concluding question: How can the world avoid…
Underscoring virtually all of the conceptual difficulties of copyright protection for computer software is an uneasy match between a legal mechanism aimed at protecting the fruits of creative labor, which has evolved for centuries around artistic and literary concepts, and devices that control a machine. It is not surprising, therefore, that prior to the enactment of the Copyright Act of 1976 and the advent of mass-marketed computers for use in homes and small businesses, the interests of program developers were protected largely by trade secrecy and by contract. Nevertheless, when Congress enacted the 1976 Act it appointed CONTU 6 to study, inter alia, the possibility of extending copyright protection to computer programs,17 while provisionally…
In my own words, I would explain to someone that copyright laws are giving permission from the creator of the original work to another person so they can use it. There are limitations and exclusive rights, including fair use of the original copy. It provides the creator work control over many activities such as, the right to reproduce, distribute, and display the work.…
The internet world around us is steadily increasing. Music is becoming easier and easier to acquire without pay. It isn’t the easiest thing to track down everyone who is illegally downloading music, but now-a-days almost everyone is doing it. This isn’t violating copyright if the party isn’t selling the music under their name, or changing the music/creating the music similar as their own. However, artists can still lose profit from this.…
It provides for the protection of the confidentiality rights of individuals in view of the developments in the techniques used to capture, transmit and manipulate, record or store data in an e-commerce…
When dealing with pirating, people try to…
In our world, there is an ongoing debate about reinforcing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Fair use is being confused for piracy and copyright infringement, which can be devastating to someone's career. First, to understand this problem copyright and fair use need to be defined. To have something protected by copyright it must be recorded in some way, it must be original, and it must be creative (Popek 8). Fair use allows a creator to make something with copyright protected material, as long as the content has a different meaning and cites the original work (Popek 22).…
Copyright has been a controversial topic since the day it was created. It’s intentionally written for protecting intelligent properties, yet turns out causing a lot of pernicious side effects. In the editorial “In Defense of Piracy” of Lawrence Lessig, he criticized that the “copyrights wars” chokes creativity and criminalizes people who share stuff online. He provided an example which was about a mother posted her 13-month-old son dancing video with Prince’s music playing on the background on YouTube.…
1. Why do you think that countries like China and other poor or developing nations are havens for intellectual property theft and film/video pirating? In China and other poor nations IP laws are either non-existent or not enforced. For instance, Chinese government has no interest in enforcing these laws, since Chinese businesses hold few copyrights (and those are rigorously protected).…